Senior Pricing Analyst

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Senior Pricing AnalystHere's what you'll be doing

npower Business Solutions (nBS) is the E.ON UK Industrial and Commercial (I&C) pillar and a market leader in the B2B energy retail sector. I&C is a £6 billion revenue business serving c60,000 customers and around 300,000 meter points with a view to becoming the number one B2B energy supplier in the UK.

Right now, we are looking for a Senior Pricing Analyst to join our team. For this role, you will be responsible for timely, accurate pricing, ensuring the application of accurate known and forecasted volumes, costs and contract margin expectations. You will be be results-oriented, with the ability to meet tight deadlines and produce clear and concise feedback/reports to senior management. This role offers the hybrid working approach, where you will be working in the office (Solihull) 2 days per week.

Key responsibilities

• Guide a team of Pricing Analysts and support the Pricing Manager in coordinating team outputs to meet Sales and Customer expectations, considering competing and often conflicting demands/viewpoints in determining and prioritising workload.
• Executing the controls in place to manage pricing validation and for the sign off for all the pricing activity of our Pricing Analysts, ensuring DOA authorisation is adhered to.
• Propose and support processes and system developments through the Change Management (CM) process to enhance business productivity and performance.
• Develop strong working relationships with Generation Services and Corporate and Strategic (C&S) Client Leads, sharing an understanding of our pricing and forecasting techniques, working collaboratively to find the best pricing solution for current and prospective customers.
• Support complex and challenging conversations with internal and external customers, including Client Leads, Service and energy sellers.
• Support the Pricing Manager in building a capability within the team to understand the complex commercial risks, product structures and process so that continuous improvement, improved efficiency and automation are considered BAU.
• Guide the Pricing Manager in prioritisation of workflow and resource allocation of a team of Pricing Analysts ensuring pricing is concluded in accordance with the deadlines set out in SLAs, route to market agreements and customer contracts.

What we need from you

• Proven exposure to dynamic, commercial environments with a track record of ongoing success.
• An understanding of the UK Energy Market including wholesale, retail, renewables, distribution, conservation and generation market spaces.
• The ability to analyse and interpret complex, multiple sources of data and insight to optimise financial performance, provide intelligent commentary and make strategic recommendations to inform critical business decisions.
• A strong understanding of commercial, financial and generation services functions
• An in-depth understanding of valuation and risk analysis methods and statistical analysis.
• Good IT skills MS Office suite (especially Excel), VB(A), statistical packages.

Here’s what you need to know

• Our market-leading benefits package includes 26 days holiday + bank holidays, a generous pension scheme, life cover, bonus and the chance to choose from 20 flexible benefits with tax and/or NI savings. In fact, our benefits package recently won the Personnel Today Reward, Recognition and Benefits Award 2022! As the only energy company to feature in The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers (our current ranking is 8th) we’ve proven that we’re committed to equal opportunities and actively promote a diverse and inclusive working environment, and fairness for everyone.
• We realise the best people bring their energy at different times, so we’re happy to talk flexible working and offer a range of flexible working options, including full time, part time and job share.
• As a Disability Confident Employer we interview every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
• We’ve exciting opportunities for everyone to develop their talent at E.ON. Our open access, inclusive talent networks provide networking, learning and development for all, building your skills, qualifications, and capabilities throughout your career.